So for some reason I can't post anything on my profile so I'll just post it here.
Recently I have broken through my 50lbs dumbbell bench press plateau and have finally started to use 55lbs, I guess it was just a bad mentality, I thought it's only been like 2 months since 50lbs was your 5 rep max. Easter I was at my cousin's place and he had left his barbell bench press set on 135 lbs(45lbs plates on a 45lbs bar) so I'm like, heck I'll try it and I was surprised that I could bust out a good 3 reps, I guess I have to thank my cousin for leaving his weights out so I could finally break through that mentality. Push day I had increased my straight bar tricep pull down to 110lbs, I don't know why the tricep pull down is so easy for me, I could barely do10 reps on the 20lbs dumbell scullcrushers. Also, I have been using a barbell for shoulders to improve my shoulder mobility discrepancy, I used like 50lbs for my working sets. The clavicle discrepancy I have been treating with an upright standing dumbbells fly that kind of ends in a row, I don't know why but it seems to be workingextremely well(the sound of joints crackling means something right?) now 90% of the time my shoulders look fine, not perfect but also not to the point where you could really notice, I plan to continue to do this on pull days and since I do them with 25lbs I have much room for improvement, and combined with single side shoulder shrugs it will improve. Also I did 210lbs on the crunch machine for 5 reps, and although the machine doesn't allow for a full contraction my abs are still extremely sore, I find using the machine could help with ab definition because while doing those 5 reps it felt as if my abs were caving into me. I like these kind of power sets because they can really boost self confidence, like did I seriously just push 210lbs with my abs and it wasn't even my 1 rep max?! Today on the other hand was leg day, kind of couldn't get a chance to train all of last week so just like everyone else, I hate leg day after a whole 2 weeks of no leg training. Today was kind of a mix of sucking and awesomeness, first off the disappointing things were that the quad machine was broken at the gym so they only worked during my squats, plus about 2 years ago I did a mile run in 4:55, and today when I got to the gym I immediately jumped on the treadmill hoping to get a mile in at least 5 minutes, to my disappointment I had only gotten 0.82 mile in 5 minutes, I blame the treadmill for having to speed up, for having a max speed of 12mph although I can definitely go faster, and lastly i blame the treadmill for being a treadmill because everyone knows that you run faster and farther on plain dirt than you do on a treadmill track. Moving on to the good news; I finally exceeded my own weight on my squat and deadlift. On the squat I had done 1 set of 5 reps at 165lbs(2-25lbs plus a 10lbs plate on each side of a 45lbs bar) this was my 5th set so it is expected, on set 4 I was like I'll try 150lbs first to make sure I don't die I'd I try. On the deadlift I also had 165lbs but since I was confident that I would be able to handle it I did it for 2 sets of 8 reps with a warm up set and a set prior to it. On the hamstring machine I got a 5 rep max of like 199lbs and on the calve machine I got 5 reps with the whole stack on which was 500lbs, for my working sets I usually do 8 reps of 300lbs or 320lbs but I was feeling adventurous.
Critique all you want.
Here are a few pics of me yesterday. I should have worn my black pants so I could have matched the color scheme of the gym.😂😂😂